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Google Buys Enough Clean Energy to Power Two San Franciscos(wired.com)
2 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments
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Bridging the “Reality Gap”(medium.com)
1 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments
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CCP Games, creators of EVE Valkyrie, raise $30M to build more VR games(vrfocus.com)
1 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments
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by dshankar 11y ago
This was a fascinating read. Surprised that painters have seemingly good working conditions, set their own hours, and work from home! Just a random idea: when targeting mid-market customers, have you considered going "Watsi" style
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by dshankar 11y ago
Instead, I wonder if YC can formalize & self-regulate a secondary market as an intermediate step before IPOs. This is already happening, but with undesirable side effects.
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YC Continuity(blog.ycombinator.com)
316 points by dshankar 11y ago|70 comments
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Interstellar radio links enhanced by exploiting the Sun as a Gravitational Lens(citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)
3 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments
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How We Uncovered the Real Identity Behind “Startup L. Jackson”(syrah.co)
238 points by dshankar 11y ago|98 comments
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More Startup Metrics(a16z.com)
96 points by dshankar 11y ago|2 comments
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More Startup Metrics(a16z.com)
6 points by dshankar 11y ago|1 comments
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by dshankar 11y ago
Explanation for why this is occurring: Slack's desktop apps are HTML5 webapps wrapped inside native desktop wrappers. Specifically, Slack uses Github's Electron (formerly, Atom Shell) which is basically Chromium. The desktop app i
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John Carmack discusses the art and science of software engineering (2012)(blogs.uw.edu)
145 points by dshankar 11y ago|25 comments
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by dshankar 11y ago
Commenters have seemed to miss that this phone isn't designed for the "90%" that don't have WiFi. This isn't designed for African villages where electricity is spotty and LTE is non-existent. This is designed for te
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An AI that writes your autobiography(medium.com)
1 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments
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by dshankar 11y ago
If you're having difficulty loading this webpage, it's because the author decrypted Facebook's iOS binary and listed all 18,000 header files. Yes, this webpage is merely a list of 18,000 headers.
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ZeniMax lawsuit against Oculus moves forward(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments
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by dshankar 11y ago
On a freighter? I'd love to know more. Or one of those Caribbean leisure cruises? Those are cheap upfront - to get you in the door - relying on in-ship purchases (like alcohol & restaurants) to make the majority of their money.
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by dshankar 11y ago
I've been wanting to do this for years, but it's hardly "extremely affordable" – on average, it's anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000 per person for a 2-4 week trip.
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by dshankar 11y ago
PG is recommending you get the X.com, but that doesn't mean you need to pay $50,000 for X.com on Day 1 of your startup. I see people making this mistake all the time, buying expensive domains before validating their startup in the firs
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by dshankar 11y ago
That's because you treat VR vs AR vs reality as three different extremes. They're not. Think of them as a spectrum. VR + stereoscopic image passthrough gets you an AR-like view of the real world around you. These overlays allow yo
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by dshankar 11y ago
I'm working on this!
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by dshankar 11y ago
Many technologies exist to achieve this, they're just not in the "consumer ready" stage yet. 3D scanning is best for static objects like walls in your room. They never move or change, so scan the whole space. When you turn yo
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by dshankar 11y ago
Not much research, not many conclusions, so hard to say. There could be accommodation issues but more likely only if you're using VR >10 hours/day. And as I pointed out elsewhere in this thread, lightfield displays will eventua
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by dshankar 11y ago
Correct. But considering this is just first-generation consumer VR, I would expect this to improve. For example, here's a prototype[1] using two layered panels to achieve a continuous 4D Lightfield. This allows your eye to naturally ac
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by dshankar 11y ago
You should try a current-generation VR system, or even last year's tech like the DK2. You would be surprised. Motion sickness is now mostly an issue of badly designed software, not hardware. Developers porting content designed for 2D s
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What to know about encodings and character sets(kunststube.net)
83 points by dshankar 11y ago|30 comments
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Dynamic 3D Avatar Creation from Hand-Held Video Input(lgg.epfl.ch)
1 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments
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by dshankar 11y ago
You're probably skeptical (as I was) but watch this video demo of the Hound app: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ONXea0mXg That's insanely fast, compound natural language queries. I'm impressed.
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by dshankar 11y ago
Very interesting use case. Do you plan to add escrow functionality?
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Quantum Random Number Generator using a smartphone camera(physicsworld.com)
2 points by dshankar 11y ago|0 comments

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